Whispers !

A man whispered, "God, talk to me!". Then a bird tweeted, but the man didn't listen.
After that the man shouted, "God, talk to me!". And there were thunders through the clouds, but again the man didn't listen.
The man looked around and said, "God, let me see you". And a star shinned upon the sky like never before. However, the man didn't lift up his eyes to the sky and didn't notice.
Then the man shouted desperately, "God, touch me. Let me feel you!" At that moment, God came down from the heavens and touched the man gently on his cheek. Yet the man took off the beautiful butterfly from his cheek and continued his way.
This must remind us God is always by our side, in everything: in the great and in the simple things, even in those to which we pay no attention at all. God talks to us all the time, through the most simple and unexpected things .
Don't miss them!

motherhood

What,s motherhood? is it only loving our children?if we love our children, it,s because we love ourselves and it has little motherhood in it. even if we like our adults, husband , other relatives, it all has loving ourselvees in it ,cos,we like tio be loved. it is much near to the ego we talk about.

motherhood has taking care about others, thinking about what happens around us and why, lots of responsibility, respect, thought , change.... in it . it is much closer to the self we talk about.

have you seen mothers taking their children to school when blocking the street , bothering others, to be near to the school door? they are good mothers in their opinion , but do you see motherhood in it?

It is is not the only problem, i see it in many aspects of life here. it is one of things absent in our relations and i think it is a real danger. only think about what happens around us and why?!!

Where are we going to be and what we will herit for others, especially for our children!!

The Law Of Attraction

I am very impressed by the movie "The Secret". I think it is more than just a movie, it is a lesson. They're teaching us "The Law Of Attraction", the most powerful law in the universe.
The law of attraction states that u attract EVERYTHING in ur life. U attract people, objects, situations, etc. & u attract them by the thoughts u have in ur mind, whether they're positive or negative. In one part it states that u get the bad things because u EXPECTED them. This expectation is the thought in ur mind, u have focused on that expectation. This has happened for me many times, both for positive & negative thoughts. My focusing on my thoughts made them happen, even if it was unconsciously. I think it will be easy to focus on positive thoughts, & a little bit difficult for focusing on negative thoughts. It's practising is difficult. Anyway, all is in our minds & related to our thoughts, feelings & attentions. Let's try, we can get what we want to get.

Do you wanna be an ALCHEMIST?

“When you really want something, the entire world conspires to help you reach it. Always listen to your heart.
Follow the omens that God has leaved for you in the way to your destiny.
The language of the world, the soul of the world “…

These are the recurrent sentences of this book. Paulo Coelho in this book encourages people to follow their dreams. All the people when they are a child, they have some special dreams and are eager to make them come true, their heart tells them to do so, but only a few of them listen to it. Most of them forget about their dreams since it seems to be a difficult journey. This group finally decides to go through the life as it actually is and put themselves in the way of the fate. Usually when they are asked why not following their dreams they respond: Sometimes during your life something powerful happens that stops you following your dream and makes you give up…
But Coelho says that this is the world’s biggest lie…

“Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it’s because that the desire is originated in the soul of the universe. It’s your mission on the earth. The soul of the world becomes happy by people’s happiness.”

DON’T WORRY….
If you really follow your dream, God will show the way to you by the language of omens in the world. Omens always try to talk to you; they have a language which is common among the world. It is the language of the universe. No matter you talk English, Arabic, Spanish or whatever, all of us are made by the same hand and we have the common language. The way of our destiny is a great test on reading the omens and learning the language.
We are from the soul of the world and will go back to it some day. But those of us are happy that follow their dreams and learn to read the language of the world and speak it before going back…

The Alchemist is a kind of a book that every time you read it, you will learn something new. It is full of learning and reading…

The story of a hatred of English

Hi,every body

I want to say a fact to you about my learning story.when I was about 10 years old,my father encouraged me to study English . so I registered in one of the English institute .Unfourtunately a person who was responsible to teach us was inexperienced so I could not be successful in learning English .From then on I hated English . and I had a bad idea about this language,but when I was in the third year of guidance school,I decided to try learning this language again soI registered again and this time in contrast with last experience I succeeded. I want to say that always thw start and beginning of every thing is important and it will shape our insights but if you have any bad experience , DO NOT PUT IT AWAY . try again .surely because of your eagerness you will succeed.

learning,knowing,discovering

learning is like dicovering, when trying to learn something new i am discovering.as i get in to one subject & going deep through it i am finding more details & lots of things that is unknowen.when i name my self as a learner i will have a big job to do not just reading, looking,searching,... and after that live it apart and do nothing about it. it must let the mind in trouble & be some thing unsolved to make the learner look for the answer.through the learning i can find new things, the things that i didn't know befor. life long learning=one does for oneself . learning is an ENVOLVING .

death and active attention

one of concerns in life is death. we have heard abouth life and death and after death in religion but how can we behave when we are faced with , can be a new concept.

in the past , death was as simple as life , but now there are many questions about it as there is about life.

in the book "respect - an exploration" written by sara laurence-lightfoot published by persues books-in year 2000- the last chapter "attention", the answer to question "how to behave one who is facing death or disease going to death" the answer is simply "BE PRESENT" and for the relatives "be present in their loss and grief".

"birth and death join at such moments, inviting our full attention. for the dying and the living. the immediate moment is the most significant. NOW IS ALWAYS.

"active attention is not about shutting up or not talking. it is more about attitude. one of the most important aspects of presence is revealing a gentle curiosity about the person and expect nothing in return."

"dying people want to live their lives the way they,ve always lived them. people don,t fear biological cessation, they fear what dying will do to life the way they have known and experienced it. dying people want to be in control , but they are asking for power over a specific , personal, mundane world of their own."

"the person in crisis wants to know that the healer knows her story implicity and explicity, that it is unique and fascinating, that the healer is listening at this time and this moment to only her story. and she want to be assured that the healer has heard it all before,"

A PART OF MY LIFE

Hi. I think some of you, as Hadis said, are confusing. But I think with this way little by little I am learning to know myself; then, after that I will be the learner of other things. I don’t think we should be a learner in just a second. Anyway,I wrote my life and my learning during it. IT was so long; so I write some lines of it here. I was so active in the years I was between 9 and 14. I did so many things and I learned how to accept a responsibility and do it completely and correctly. For example for sometime I was responsible for selling the edibles. Once my friend and I lost a little money of the store so we put our money instead of that and I learned an important story. For sometime I worked in library. The world of library with those books was so beautiful and pleasant that I couldn’t stop reading books. With these activities I learned how to behave with elders.

non_stop learning & ?s

hi everyone.I read some of your comments and all of them were somehow about your experiences.I agree with laleh , Zinat and Zahra.I think the way we are going through is somehow cofusing me and there is a big contrast between ''Being a Real Learner'' and what we are doing now;because as i wrote in my notebook for me quality is always more honarable than quantity.thank you for reading my comment.

living,learning,being,becoming

my learning process I think was very special since it began whith my mum and dad going to university and beginning of another part of their learning.
learning in my life has begun since I was born as I think every other's has.Because my father and my mother's studies we travelled alot from this city to another and through this the process of my learning shaped and advanced.
by traveling and living with them I aquainted with other people's lives and cultures and I learnt alot from them.I also learnt the policy that we talked about to some extent,that every thing has its time and place.
with every change and difficulty in my life my learning process changed too and it became more and more mine, because we learn some general things and as we grow our learning becomes more part of us .
when people talked about the learning process I always thought is what people learn in schools and universities but now I think it's only one part of the thing we name learning process and also that the process has many aspects andalsothat the most important part is learning ourselves.I think learning is worthy when it make us closer to ourselves not learning for just learning.
my learning process will go on and on and actually I'm more interested in it now than any time before since I think about it more and I try to analyze it to get to know its secrets.

BEING & BECOMING

Learning process in my life maybe be somehow similiar to others,but i am sure they are all my own and nobody can experience it ,i do not remember much about my childhood but there are lessons from that period that will stay in my mind til the end of my life .Such lessons are feeling of fear of losing my dull by darkness ,i felt it ,when i was three or four and my dad bought a dull for me and i was scared every night and i thought that darkness would take my dull,becuse of it,i fell asleep with it by my side in my arms.I felt those days the meaning of deep friendship.In those years i was always playing with my cousins ,i was quarreling with them,they beat me and i did,but something which was important was/ is that after all the things we did in bothering each other ,friendship was/is there in our hearts and it deepened in our minds and hearts.Lessons in my life were taught by my family ,my friends ,my teachers in my elementry school,animals ,maybe you are suprised when i talk about animals but i learnt some lessons from them,for example i learnt from my brother's pigeons that every kind of being wants to be free from limitations that other beings make for them,pigeons tried to set free themselves several times and finally some of them succeeded and at that moment i found although they may face with other problems in the world,they prefered to feel freedom.after that i ask myself if i am really free or not .During the last years of my life ,i really felt sharing in every aspect of my life,sharing the bus-seat with my friend ,sharing thoughts with the old lady in the bus ,sharing smiles with the babies in the bus,sharing someone's feelings with me.........and finally i am learning lessons from all the things around me in every single moment of my life.


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Learn,Learning,Learner

While reading "Being a learner", I remembered most of my experiences which emphasize this point that all my life I've been a learner and I will until I die; even after my death the story of me as a learner remains forever.
The stories just need to be retold to see who we were, who we are and who we want to be;to see what we learned in our experiences that formed the person who we are now ( what were the changes? ).
The listeners for these stories are the learners, so when I listen to my previous stories, I'm a learner; when I listen to your stories I'm a learner; and listening to my stories you are a learner. As the stories don't stop to be heard, the learning don't stop to be learned!
Our stories, experiences, interests bring us together and they need to be shared; burying them in your privacy means burying yourself alive.

LeArNiNg

it's really right that learning takes a long time,as long as my life.i've started learning since the day i opened my eyes to this world.i am always learning something.i think learning is not possible without tolerating pain.it's hard most of the time to learn.i myself learn more when i pass a bitter experience and i often promiss myself not to repeat that kind of mistake again but i forget.i think forgetting has the same meaning as unlearning.i mean i often think that i've learnt what is right or wrong but when i don't act the learned thing it seems that i've forgotten it.for example sometimes i see people acting with me very selfishly and i promiss not to be like that with others but i don't remember this all the time.
i think academic learning is important cause it's effect on our daily learning.i visit many people including my teachers and friends in the university and it makes me grow up with new and diffrent ideas and it makes me learn and understand life more and more.

Where are you?

Hello. I was very surprised when I saw that nobody has posted anything yet and I thought that I am the last person. Anyway,
As I was talking to Ruth and Kenneth I found some of their words nice to tell you about: 1."learning is an essential life skill." I hadn't looked at learning as a skill. I thought all people just learn and there is nothing new; but when I see it as a skill I know that it can be improved. If we don't bring the learning to our private lives, they will be so routine and boring as I have experienced it.
2." Respect for others` learning". Have you ever noticed to it before? Unfortunately most people don't think about others. They just say to themselves: "ok, I know this and now I am a big one and I won't teach it to anyone." And when others learn sth wrong or incomplete those people laugh at them! So, YOU, let's help each other.
3. On page 369 they refer to the people who think they are the best and don't let the others talk to them and clear their thoughts. These people are so … I hope you don't belong to this group.
They aren't only these three numbers. I will write the others in another time.I will tell the rest and my learning of my life later.

I'm writing to live, love and learn!

Dear reader,

I've read an article, "Being a learner" by Ruth Deakin Crick and Kenneth Wilson.
It's about two hours that I've been searching about the writers but I couldn't find much! What I've found which is interesting for me is that Ms Deakin had written a lot of books and articles about learning.
I don't want to write about what they've written or what I've learned; I want to "SHARE" what I have NOT learned!
Through past week, OUR 'professors' in Azzahra uni urged my classmates and I to study, to be an active learner!!!!!!!! Some of them directly and some indirectly told us that WE are LAZY! This made me really disappointed and SAD and made me think "Who is a LEARNER?"
I thought I haven't learned who a LEARNER is and after reading the "Being A Learner" I'm sure that neither me nor Ms Deakin, Mr Kenneth, my pals, my family and my ralatives know who a learner is! It is ONLY the proffessors of Azzahra Uni that know "who a learner is"!!!!!!!!!!
So I've decided to ask THEM.
Let me promise you that in my next post I'll share the result.

Wish you GOOD LUCK

Being different

I was thinking that why should I say that all things I read are good and beautiful. I mean why anybody doesn't say that she doesn't like it. This happened for me in reading Leggo`s. of course I like some lines, but I saw that he had collected other's thoughts and it wasn't all his. I think Leggo and I are completely different because I don't understand what he says clearly. Maybe I have changed because I like his writing, that Ostad gave us last term, more. I mean I could feel him more easily. Anyway Leggo`s talking was about poetry which I haven't gone deep in yet. In one part Leggo introduces a woman, Underhill, whom I like her thoughts very much. She says" in silence, stillness, and solitude I am learning to attend to the inner life." I like the silence, too.

Knowing, Being & Becoming

Salam
By reading Leggo's article for the first time, I found myself in a Sea of words that it was hard for me to find the relationships between them. At that time, in my opinion the article was made of different subjects, so I lost myself in it. But reading it for the second time and trying to CREAT a Layered Web for it, helped me to find my position in it. Then :
I knew My Position ( KNOWING ), I found out that there is Me ( BEING ) & I can Change and Improve my position all the time ( BECOMING ).

Four Steps of Reading

These four steps are useful because I challenge more with the things I am reading. I think I should work more on it to understand better and go deeper. Except one, I didn't choose the exact words of Leggo for my webs. For my personal web I didn't write word. I think personal experiences are more than only one word. I couldn't find any sweet experience. The descriptive web was the easiest for me because from the first moment I could imagine a fixed picture for it. There were some words which with matching them I could describe the poetic living. Creative web was a little hard. I couldn't choose some especial words because I can see that the creation is in every where. I should just move one step to find them. In critical web I wrote my questions. Leggo has used some words that I can't see him in them. When I read them I asked why, how,…

ING

leggo witnesses different backgrounds,talents,experiences and goals.

he is not only learning some principals and his experiences in a one-way
relationship with his students . he always is living with his students, witnessing their experiences that adds to his experiences. so the "ing" form is always ready in his grammering.

He is not stopped by his label, position,admiration....
he lives in his teaching, it is a kind of learning for him also.

poetically living

I witnessed in the text we have that how poetry changes the thoughts and beliefs of a person and give him a clue and the motivation of knowing,being and becoming.
It gives me the fact that how one-sided human being can be and it gives me a new sight .
poetical living may deepens and sharpens our thoughts but I think it is not the key to being and becoming. I think there should be something in the person who want to live poetical that makes this kind of living effective.
challenges in a person who lives poetical always insert some kind of restlessness in his life.
I think I should think about it more may be it has meanings beyond what I thought...

...................SALAM......................

One of ray of lights i see in leggo is sharing,sharing his life with me ,telling me his experiences of life.He tells me about his life sincerely!I feel his experiences beforei myself experinces them. Other is challenging,i am learning chanllenging with myself.Now i am challanging with everything that i encounter to see whether it has light in it or not.leggo makes my sense of wonder and mystry keen and deep.it means i get surprised when i turn to new people ,to new experiences,to new life,to find my position.

Ba arezoye salamati kamel baraye shoma.Khodahafez.................

Hi
...............................My Witnessing Of Leggo.................................
After reading lots of life in Leggo, I really love ing form.Leggo's grammaring makes me swimming in the present pool.
You can see just with your eyes,your eyes and your mind,or your eyes your mind and your heart (intelect eye) as a poet; with an unlimited kindness toward life.
I also see an intend of being teacher and student,you know,learning continually in Leggo.
Poetry is an ability that enables you speak with your inner child and relate with your Godly part; that is make silence your mind and listen to every sound in your outer and inner world.
Becouse I beleive that everything in the world is versifying its poem.
Have you ever hear river's poem?

Hi everybody.How were your webs?Did you show yourself in words? I myself did it. At first I didn't know what to write in descriptive web, so it took me a while to write my words, but for the other webs I didn't have any problem because I've found myself in the words , so I could easily put myself in the words. It was really good to go forward respectively since at last for creation I found alot of words to put myself in. When I look at my webs, I can witness myself; I mean I can read myself while reading the words.It was a good experience because I got how I look at my inner world.

witnessing my world

WITNESSING

I witness CREATIVITY in poem, poetry, emotion, heart and wisdom.
The DESCRIPTION in knowing, living, writing and conceptualizing.
The PERSONALITY for me is in devote, vocation, practical, language and living.
CRITICISM exists in seek, claim, educator and REsearch.

Bala be dooooor !!!!

Salam
What a new experience ! Having ONLINE contact with my professor. I don`t like it, because you are not here & I like it because it`s a NEW EXPERIENCE.
I worked on my Web for about 2 days. First when I was choosing the words I had a different feeling about some of them that acknowleged me to put them in all 4 webs instead of putting them in one special web. All his words had a kind of withnessing and there was a feeling of BEING & BECOMING in them so I decided to choose this name for it : " Khowing, Being & Becoming"
*** I hope you feel better and see you next session.